Staging Technology
Methuen Drama (Verlag)
978-1-350-16857-2 (ISBN)
Staging Technology bridges the divide between the technical practices of theatre production and critical, theoretical approaches to interpreting drama to examine the way dramatic theatre’s technologies are shaped by larger historical, ideological, and economic forces. At the same time, it examines how those technologies themselves have influenced 20th and 21st-century playwrights’, composers’, and librettists’ choice of subject matter for staged representation.
Examining performance works from the modernist and post-modern European and American canon of drama, opera, and performance art including works by Eugène Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Heiner Müller, Sophie Treadwell, Harold Pinter, Tristan Tzara, Jean Cocteau, Arthur Miller, Robert Pinsky, John Adams and Alice Goodman, Staging Technology transforms how we think about the interrelationship between theatre practice, performance, narrative drama, and text. In it Craig N. Owens synthesizes approaches to interpretation and practice from disparate realms, offering insights into over-arching ways of making meaning that are illustrated through focused and innovative readings of individual works for the dramatic stage. Staging Technology provides a new and transformative paradigm for thinking about dramatic literature, the practices of representational theatre production, and the historical and social contexts they inhabit.
Craig N. Owens is Professor of English and Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at Drake University, USA, where he teaches and conducts research in theatre and drama; film, television, and popular culture; and writing studies. His essays and articles have appeared in Modern Drama, Comparative Drama, The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, The Harold Pinter Review, Shaw, and numerous special collections.
Introduction: Staging Technology
Chapter One: Avant-Garde Assemblages: Tristan Tzara, Jean Cocteau, and Eugène Ionesco
Chapter Two: Machineries of Nostalgia and American Modernity: Sophie Treadwell, Elmer Rice, and Arthur Miller
Chapter Three: Alienating Devices: Bertolt Brecht & Kurt Weill, John Adams & Alice Goodman, and Don DeLillo
Chapter Four: Machineries of Constraint: Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, and Patrick Marber
Chapter Five: Post-Human Recursivity: Heiner Müller, Julie Taymor, The Transversal Theater Company, and Tod Machover & Robert Pinsky
Coda: Beyond the Western Canon: The Invisible Apparatus
Notes
References
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 25.02.2021 |
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| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 490 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-16857-2 / 1350168572 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-16857-2 / 9781350168572 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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